In the words of Dr. John Clements: "There are a lot of mistakes you can make in designing a language and Brendan Eich made all of them." This is my response.

jsish is a dynamic, strongly typed, interpreted language written in Standard ML. It began as a Javascript clone in a programming languages course and was a good exercise in bad language design, as its semantics included many of Javascript's more questionable decisions.

I extended the project by fixing some of Javascript's bad design decisions (like binding variables to the global scope if declared implicitly and the entire concept of the global object) and adding type safety to make a simpler, safer version of the language. I haven't found a use for it yet, but it was fun.

Check it out on GitHub.

In an AI course, some classmates and I had wanted to experiment in the domain of poetry generation, so we designed and developed a LSTM RNN. It worked and generated some cool phrases, but one of my classmates noted that it seemed like we were using a neural network for the sake of using a neural network. He was right.

As a result of said project, I had accrued a large collection of haiku training data. Some time later I had picked up an odd interest in Markov Chains and decided to implement one using said large collection.

The result was pretty cool. Poetry is a different medium than prose, so I implemented a state model that includes newlines as a sink state to reflect this. Because of this, the chain can generate a certain number of lines instead of words so the text has a different flow.

Check it out on GitHub.

I love JRPGs. I grew up on Final Fantasy and they will always have a special place in my heart. When Persona 5 was released, I was pretty sure that I would put hundreds of hours into it. I was right.

With Persona's extensive rotating shop inventory, I found that I was spending a lot of time on Google. Around the same time, I had been getting a lot of recommendations to learn React. So I put the two together and made this thing.

Try it out or check it out on GitHub.

Once upon a time, I hacked together a web-based visual novel by transforming DOM elements into menu bars and sprites. A few years later, I thought it'd be cool to apply this transformation to a more dynamic gaming medium.

Thus came the Madotsuki Walker (sprite/name stolen from Yume Nikki, because I am not an artist), which was an experiment in animating in-browser sprite movement using the DOM and CSS instead of with a canvas. This was a terrible idea.

Try it out or check it out on GitHub.

Inkwell is a draw and chat app that was once available on Windows, iOS, and Android. It's no longer being maintained or developed. That's probably for the best.

I joined the team during a transitionary period and was initially tasked with heading the rebranding and redesign of the app. After deploying the marketing website with a closed alpha release, I then focused on development and optimization of the REST API.

Check out a cached version of the marketing website.

Slamrater was a less-than-tasteful fratty image sharing website a friend and I created to "disrupt a multi-million dollar market". We didn't make our millions, but it was the first LAMP stack and is what got me started on web development.

It's no longer on the interwebs, and my museum records aren't exactly PG, so I'll leave details up to your imagination.